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The resolution highlights coal's value for jobs, grid reliability, and national security, but does so at the risk of slowing the clean-energy transition, perpetuating local pollution and health costs, and enabling potential future fiscal support for coal.
Taxpayers and local governments: the bill affirms coal as a reliable baseload electricity source, supporting grid stability and continuity of service.
Military personnel: the bill links availability of coal-fired power to military readiness, supporting defense operations that depend on steady electricity.
Local governments and rural communities: the bill highlights emissions reductions from advanced pollution controls at some coal plants, implying improved local air quality and public-health benefits where controls are implemented.
Taxpayers and rural communities: praising and promoting coal in the bill could slow the transition to lower‑carbon energy, delaying clean-energy investments and prolonging climate impacts.
Rural communities and local governments: emphasizing coal's reliability and dominance may understate remaining pollution and climate harms, risking continued health and environmental costs for nearby populations.
Taxpayers: the bill's nonbinding findings that emphasize coal for national security could be used to justify continued federal support or subsidies, imposing fiscal costs on the public.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Issues nonbinding congressional praise for the coal industry and affirms coal's role as a reliable baseload power and contributor to national security, emissions reductions, and economic activity.
Introduced October 20, 2025 by Cynthia M. Lummis · Last progress October 20, 2025
Expresses nonbinding congressional praise for coal industry workers and affirms coal’s continued role as a reliable, affordable baseload source of electricity, noting it supplied about 19.5% of U.S. utility-scale electricity in 2022 and over 36% of world electricity at introduction. The resolution highlights coal’s historical contributions to industrial and naval development, asserts coal’s importance to military readiness and national security, and credits advanced emissions-control technologies with reducing pollution and supporting public health and economic activity. The measure is symbolic and does not create new programs, funding, legal requirements, or regulatory changes; its practical effect is political signaling and recognition of coal and coal workers.